Mountain bike marathon world championships 2009

The 2009 Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships took place from August 21 to 23 in Graz / Stattegg , Austria .

Men

space	country	athlete	time
1	BEL	Roel Paulissen	4:34:36.8 hours
2	AUT	Alban Lakata	+ 0: 51.3 min
3	SUI	Christoph Sauser	+ 4: 39.8 min
4th	AUT	Christoph Soukup	+ 5: 54.7 min
5	GER	Wolfram Kurschat	+ 6: 06.4 min
6th	RUS	Alexei Medvedev	+ 7: 13.2 min
7th	ITA	Dario Cioni	+ 8: 49.2 min
8th	RSA	Kevin Evans	+ 9: 03.0 min

Date: August 23, 2009, 10:30 am
Length: 104 km
Elevation gain: 3,818 m

A total of 116 drivers were able to classify. 14 drivers gave up.

Women

space	country	Athlete	time
1	GER	Sabine Spitz	4: 24: 15.9 hours
2	SUI	Esther Süss	+ 0: 01.7 min
3	SUI	Petra Henzi	+ 2: 51.9 min
4th	SUI	Erika Dicht	+ 4: 33.9 min
5	GER	Elisabeth Brandau	+ 10: 30.5 min
6th	FIN	Pia Sundstedt	+ 13: 09.1 min
7th	United States	Monique Pua Sawicki	+ 17: 14.2 min
8th	SUI	Milena Landtwing	+ 20: 36.4 min

Date: 23 August 2009, 10:00 am
Length: 84 km
Elevation gain: 3,061 m

A total of 49 drivers were able to classify. Five drivers gave up. The best Austrian was Nina Duftner in 20th place, 38:19 minutes behind.

The top trio collapsed on the last climb, but Henzi had technical problems on the following descent and fell back. In the end, Spitz clearly won against Süss in the sprint.

Gunn-Rita Dahle , defending champion and four-time marathon world champion, finished the race in 13th place. She became a mother on March 22nd of the same year and therefore hardly competed in races last season.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Germany's Spitz sprints to World Championship ( memento of the original from October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed: August 25, 2009) 
2. ↑ Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå returns to the top 15 at the World championships (accessed: August 25, 2009)

Web links

• Organizer website